Player Analysis: Cade Cowell

Since the start of 2020, Major League Soccer has moved 10 homegrown players to European clubs for over $40 million before bonuses. America’s top division has quickly moved from “retirement league” to a league developing both domestic and foreign talent at an impressive rate. The rate of these sales is not going to decrease in the immediate future and is more likely to increase for a multitude of factors.

Cade Cowell will soon be a beneficiary of the work of his predecessors who have gained the trust of clubs around Europe. FC Dallas and Philadelphia Union are largely to thank for the aforementioned $40 million figure with Brenden Aaronson, Mark McKenzie, Bryan Reynolds, Reggie Cannon, and Tanner Tessmann making up more than half the transfer sum. Cade Cowell would certainly not be out of place on this list of players and will join the United States players in Europe sooner than later.

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Despite an inevitable departure from MLS in the future, Cowell will be leaving a team who hasn’t had a notable departure since Eddie Lewis went to Fulham in 1999. Unlike the FC Dallas and Philadelphia Union players, Cowell has made a name for himself at an organization which is not known to produce great talent and has done so before turning 18-years-old.